va140/icam101 - week 6

What I expect from you for the next section
A clear idea of what you're doing for the portrait / persona project

Revisions reminders:

+ Late work is late work. Turn your assignments in on time or the grade will go down.
+ Revision does not mean make a whole new piece, it means improving the original piece.
+ Plan on sitting down to talk with me when you turn in your revision, no hit and run.
+ Keep all versions so we can compare them when we discuss your revision.
+I'd like to see a print version, but to have the revision archived online I need a screen version too.

The best thing to do is make an appointment, so you can be sure I have the time to talk with you (which I will insist on). This can be during my office hours, around the lecture or section times, or any other time that will work for both of us. Since it does not have to be in the lab (my studio is a good place for these meetings), don't worry about working around that overloaded schedule. Please don't wait until the end of the Quarter to do this, and remember, there will be no revisions allowed on the Final Project.

Project #3 - Portrait / Persona (Constructed Identity )

Hints:

Portrait = Individual
Persona = Archetype
We should recognize the Persona, but not neccesarily the Portrait
The emphasis is on presenting a constructed Identity
Doesn't have to be a face, but please don't do "You are what you own"
Can be done in Photoshop or Morph (good for looking at group identitiy)
You can use yourself as model
You need to have a very specific idea to do this well
I have found text to be a very helpful tool in constructing archetypical characters (descrptions, etc)

We will troubleshoot this project next week, so bring questions / problems for us on tech, ideas, design, etc.

A humorous aside: famous faces as done by police sketch software

Websites discussed at Art = Rat